Improvement in bird-cages



A. B. HENDRYX.

Bird-Gage.

No. 218,266. Patented Aug. 5,1379.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ANDREW B. HENDRYX, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BIRD-CAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 2] 8,266., dated August5, 1879; application filed June 9, 1879.

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Be it known that I, ANDREW B. HENDRYX, of Ansonia, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inBird-Cages and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, sectional side view of the wire part of the cage; Fig. 2, aplan view illustrating the invention.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of securing thewires in a birdcage at that point where projecting bends are made-thatis to say, where the vertical wires are bent outward, as at a, Fig. 1.At the outer bend a sustaining-wire is necessary to hold the verticalwires in their proper relative position to each other. This is usuallydone by arranging a transverse wire along the inside at the bendand'soldering the vertical wires to it, or corrugating the transversewires, as seen in Fig. 2, so that each of the vertical wires will lie inone of the corrugations, and then soldering the transverse wire atseveral points around the cage; but such soldering unavoidablydisfigures the cage, either because of the heat required or becauseovercome these difficulties is the object of the invention; and itconsists in securing a corrugated transverse wire to the vertical wiresby a loop around the transverse wire, and more or less of the verticalwires, as hereinafter described.

A represents the vertical wires; 1), the transverse bars, to which thevertical wires are secured, and a the bends in the vertical wires; d,transverse wire, which is corrugated, the corrugations corresponding tothe position of the vertical wires at the bend. At several points a ringor loop, 6, of wire is placed around the transverse wire and thecorresponding vertical wire, so as to hold the transverse wire firmly toits place in the bend of those vertical wires, the strength of thetransverse wire between those points being sufficient to hold thevertical wires in the corrugations, yet, if desired, these loops may beapplied to each of the vertical wires.

I claim--- 7 The combination, in a bird-cage, of the vertical wires andcorrugated transverse wire, with loops around both vertical andtransverse wires, substantially as described.

ANDREW B. HENDRYX.

Witnesses:

J 0s. 0. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY.

